Just so that I remember

We had an interesting Thanksgiving-very non traditional spent in the beautiful Colorado Mountains. Upon arriving home I realized that somehow someone mistakenly erased all the pictures from our trip. I sat last night thinking about the things that I did not want to forget about our special family trip to Glenwood Springs for Thanksgiving 2008.
Here were some of those things....

.The kids looking with awe at the many decorations at the Hotel Colorado.
.Caleb gagging himself with too many mashed potatos at Thanksgiving dinner until he threw up and guess who got to clean him up?
. Halle and her infatuation with the carousel on a tabletop at the hotel. That was such a great picture I had of her looking at it. :(
.Swimming with our kids in the hot pool for the first time. Brent had never been there either.
.Halle singing Jesus loves me at the top of her lungs in the swimming pool with lots of admiring people listening-including me. Even Caleb joined in.
.Pictures in the park with Santa, the toy soldiers-Caleb knocked one over without realizing it. His name was Bob. (They had named all of the toy soldiers)
.Ice Cream and shopping with Halle (just the girls) through several stores downtown Glenwood. We have so much fun together.
.Purchasing a special Christmas night light for Halle and finding The Night before Christmas in hardback-our Christas Eve Tradition. (No more reading it from the internet)
.Halle telling me she will never forget those gifts and our special time shopping together.
Brent watching the CU/Nebraska game in our hotel room with Caleb sleeping. CU lost in the last minute of the game when Nebraska kicked a 57 yard field goal! Go Buffs!
.The Christmas festivities at the Hotel Colorado-loved the Christ-centered show they put on complete with fireworks and hot cocoa.
. The candle light service candles that both of our kids wanted to hold while lit....Caleb thought it was a birthday candle of course and kept blowing it out and making us relight it.
.watching the trains go around the track a thousand times at the Hotel Colorado.
.Hating the stuffing at the hotel Thankgiving dinner and longed for some homemade goodness at that moment.
.Watching Halle and Caleb look at the beautiful Christmas tree and Caleb repeating APPLE, APPLE, APPLE as he points to each red Christmas ball on the tree.
.Going to bed sooooo early because lights were out in our hotel room for the kids at 8:30 so we decided to join them. The bags under my eyes were suddenly gone after just two nights!
.The beautiful weather for the first two days-you hardly needed a jacket.
.The long and slow, snowy and cold drive home. We left at noon and arrived home at 9:45pm.
Spontaneously going to a movie to get off the I-70 parking lot and choosing to watch Bolt without knowing what is was about. The kids loved it! Caleb hogged all the popcorn as usual! I think he ate 75% of it himself.

That is about all that I can remember now but it was a good time and very healthy for all of us. Just because I cannot post any pictures from that time and I have to post a picture with nearly every blog post, here is one from our time decorating the day after we came home.